The Speaker / Presenter

Speaking at ‘normal’ conferences means you’ll have your presentation on your laptop and sometimes you’re fighting with connection to Beamers. Speaking about mobile development you’ll also have one or more Smartphones with you and from time to time you’re fighting with document-cameras to present the mobile content to the Beamer.

What does mobile Computing mean to you as a Speaker at conferences ?

wouldn’t it be cool to let the laptop at home or hotel ? only using your smartphone to present ?

Modern beamer have a HDMI connection and some Smaartphones have a HDMI connector.

The Camera Man

Presenting a Session about Mobile Computing with live demonstration of different mobile workspaces isn’t easy to follow by the audience. So you must find a way to make small things visible: (Miracast Connector, Keyboard, Hub, …)

What about a Camera Man streaming live to the Beamer ?

You don’t have your own Camera Man ?

You have your Smartphone !

See it live in my Session !

The Missing Piece (Where’s the PC ? …Server ? …WebApp ? …)

You got a request by your customer to develop a mobile App where content from the mobile devices will be sent to a Server and made visible on a PC running a WebApp in the Browser.

I will demo a customer application (NFC Game) where all scores will be visible on a big screen, all as Mobile Only running on Smartphones, without an extra Server.

We’ll play this game as live demo and perhaps I can get some hardware for the winners.

Mobile ERP (On-The-Go and In-The-Office)

Still not sure what can be done with Mobile Computing ? Will it work for a mobile ERP solution ?

I will demo some workflows from a business app for Service Cars, where the Car Drivers, the Dispatcher and the Office are using their SmartPhones to manage it all.

On-The-Go mobile workspace

I have some hardware with me to show you how a Servcie Employee at Customer site is working on Orders and sending states to the Office.

The Dispatcher is also working at customer sites, but he has a special ‘On-The-Go Workspace’ inside his car to dispatch Orders and to see where all the Car Drivers are on a Map.

In-The-Office mobile workspace

Mobile Only Computing NOW

All of this from real-world business apps. In this example its used for small and medium sized service companies without an own IT department, without own Servers. The only ‘computers’ everyone has the knowledge to use are their Smartphones.

Business Apps and IoT

If you think about all of this and add the Internet of Things (IoT) there will be cool workflows possible even for enterprises.